SunFilter Algae Reactor
The SunFilter is a tubular algae bioreactor designed to sequester nitrogen and carbon oxide gases (greenhouse gases). The gases enter the bottom manifold of the SunFilter and bubble up through the algae tubes.
Low power ultraviolet lights, in combination with the gases, feed the algae which grow and fill the tubes with blooms. When the blooms have reached an appropriate density, a set of magnetic rings inside the SunFilter tubes scrape them clean and push the algae upward to the upper manifold, where compressed air pushes the algae out. The algae is then compressed and dried, and then either fed back into the NT Plasmatron to be gasified or fed into a biodiesel reactor to make biodiesel. The advantage of making biodiesel with the algae is that biodiesel has better lubricity than Fischer Tropsch diesel, while Fischer Tropsch diesel has a higher cetane.
The combination of the two types of diesel makes a nearly perfect diesel.
The SunFilter completely sequesters all of the greenhouse gases generated by the NT Plasmatron. Other than small leaks that may exist in the system as they do in any industrial gas handling system, the W2 Energy system emits zero greenhouse gases into atmosphere.